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Mother in cursive

As a picture in four handwriting fonts, free to download, or as ℳℴ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇 and 𝓜𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 to paste anywhere text goes.

The word Mother set in Great Vibes, Allura, Parisienne and Mrs Saint Delafield, the four typefaces the handwriting generator draws with, above the same word written with Unicode cursive characters (ℳℴ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇) drawn by STIX Two Math. The typefaces make pictures; the last row is text. — Mother five ways. The top four are typefaces, and what the downloads below save; the last is Unicode cursive, text you can copy, drawn here by STIX Two Math and on a phone by that phone’s own font.

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Drawn with Great Vibes by Robert E. Leuschke and others, an open-licence typeface. The PNG is a picture of the text: it can go on a photo, a card or a document, but it cannot be pasted as text, searched or read aloud.

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The characters behind Mother

The Unicode characters that spell Mother in cursive
Letter	Cursive	Code point and name	Bold cursive	Code point
M	ℳ	`U+2133` SCRIPT CAPITAL M	𝓜	`U+1D4DC`
o	ℴ	`U+2134` SCRIPT SMALL O	𝓸	`U+1D4F8`
t	𝓉	`U+1D4C9` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL T	𝓽	`U+1D4FD`
h	𝒽	`U+1D4BD` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL H	𝓱	`U+1D4F1`
e	ℯ	`U+212F` SCRIPT SMALL E	𝓮	`U+1D4EE`
r	𝓇	`U+1D4C7` MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL R	𝓻	`U+1D4FB`

In light cursive, 3 of the 6 letters of Mother come from Letterlike Symbols rather than the maths alphabet: ℳ (U+2133 SCRIPT CAPITAL M, also listed as “M-matrix (physics)” and “German Mark currency symbol, before WWII”), ℴ (U+2134 SCRIPT SMALL O, also listed as “order, of inferior order to”) and ℯ (U+212F SCRIPT SMALL E, also listed as “error” and “natural exponent”).

Bold cursive avoids all of those: its 52 letters sit in one range, U+1D4D0 to U+1D503, so 𝓜𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 is drawn from a single source.

ℏ, U+210F PLANCK CONSTANT OVER TWO PI, which Unicode also lists as “reduced Planck constant, Dirac constant”, looks like the 𝒽 in ℳℴ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇 but is a different character; text typed with it will not match a search for Mother.

How much room Mother takes as text

Characters, UTF-16 units and SMS size of Mother in each style
As	Text	Characters	UTF-16 units	As a text message
Plain text	Mother	6	6	6 of 160, GSM alphabet
Cursive script	ℳℴ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇	6	9	9 of 70, 16-bit
Bold cursive	𝓜𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻	6	12	12 of 70, 16-bit
Fancy cursive	✦ 𝓜𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 ✦	10	16	16 of 70, 16-bit
Cursive with hearts	♡𝓜𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻♡	8	14	14 of 70, 16-bit

Sending it by text? What cursive does to an SMS explains the last column, and the box test checks whether a phone can draw it.